FOR MALIK

[duranduel]

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[godcards]

I'm the heir and she isn't, so the primary responsibility falls to me.

There is no one to enforce the law, however, if I die and she takes over.

[duranduel]

does she know what you're doing? your plan?

[godcards]

I believe she does.

But I haven't spoken to her in a number of years.

[duranduel]

might be getting this wrong

but isn't that lonely

[godcards]

It's something I had to do to achieve my goal.

[duranduel]

will there be anyone there to protect her if you don't?

[godcards]

Rishid will, if he's still alive.

[duranduel]

and who is rishid?

[godcards]

He has been serving my family since before I was born.

[duranduel]

so the tombkeepers have their own servants?

he sounds very loyal

[godcards]

Not usually. It's a special case for him.

He was going to be the heir if I wasn't born.

[duranduel]

really? even though he's not an official part of your tombkeeper family?

[godcards]

He is not related by blood, so my father wouldn't accept him.

I believe this was a suggestion by my mother. I do not know many details... But he has always been taking care of me, and learned all the same things I did. If it were not for our bloodline, perhaps things would be different.

[duranduel]

so the bloodline in and of itself is almost like a curse

[godcards]

That's exactly what it is.

[ literally. ]

[duranduel]

how terrible

good that you're putting an end to that

though that makes it more necessary to have support to cover you in case it may fail

[godcards]

I suppose......

[duranduel]

so i could help you if you needed it

[godcards]

[ another long pause ]

I really don't know what I'm going to do.

[duranduel]

then talk me through it. brainstorming is a thing

[godcards]

So here's what we know...

If my ultimate goal is to go back home... what happens after graduation?
Dying is possible, but I don't want that to happen. The dead don't get to participate in the story. Do we have to write the ending where we graduate? Are we still going to create a villain? What is going to happen if one of us has to be that villain? After today, I don't trust most of these people to follow simple instructions. The story itself could tell us what we have to do, but if it isn't agreeable, there won't be any cooperation.

If we know what the plot hole was... Maybe that's an answer...

[duranduel]

i don't know

it all seems confusing and doesn't fit together. i think that's why there's a plot hole in the first place

the key seems to be that hole. if we follow the story to the letter we might be trapped for good

but manipulating things behind the scenes and making it work for all of us so we graduate and return home? that's a start. i don't think we need to give this place exactly what it wants

[godcards]

We're in agreement.

I think going along with things has made it so the story does these forced killings for drama. Most of the student body is all too happy to play along, even if they say otherwise.

I'd be interested to know how the story is able to interact with us and if it controls itself or if there's something else. Even if it's a rogue story, how did it come to be in the first place? It has to be written somehow. Something chose us to be here... I don't think it was random chance.

[duranduel]

it may have been that someone wrote it and it was unfinished and the story wanted to finish itself

someone gave that power to the story and now its independent and wants to do what it wants to complete itself maybe

anyways with the power it has we have to be careful

[godcards]

So there's going to be an ending no matter what.

How do you fight an invisible enemy?